Tuesday, June 29, 2010

We Treat, Jesus Heals

This is the sign for the hospital in Kilgoris. We found their motto to be true on our trip, in our work, as well.

The first day, one little girl hung out next to me for several hours. Her head was covering in boil-like eruptions. I didn't know what was wrong with her, so I just prayed and prayed that Jesus would heal her. As I did, I got the sense that he really cared for her, but her head still looked the same.


Later that day I saw one of the women from our team who is a nurse looking at this girl with one of the Kenyan women. She told us that they had figured out that the little girl had a very advanced case of ringworm, so they had treated her for it. 

We went back to the same place on our last day. The girl ran up to me in her Sunday dress and her head looked completely different. There was not an open wound on it, just a few places where you could see it had healed over. It was so exciting to see our presence and small ability to pray and treat bring about a big change for one girl God cares about so much and who I had also come to love and cherish.

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